UiO

High- lights

Contents

10 Education

and student life

14 Research

18Innovation

04 Preface

06 UiO in brief

08 Oslo – urban living

close to nature

22 A global university

23 The Guild

26 More about UiO

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The University of Oslo (UiO) was established in 1811 as Norway’s first university and continues to be Norway’s highest ranked institution of educa-tion and research. UiO’s vision is to challenge the boundaries of knowledge and to provide individu-als and society with insight and competences.

UiO offers research-based education and attracts highly qualified students from all over the world. Students at UiO learn from Norway’s leading researchers, with excellent facilities in the beautiful city of Oslo. UiO has a special national responsibility for basic research and researcher training, and for managing research librar-ies and museums with scientific collections and public exhibitions. We believe that our breadth is our strength. New possibilities arise when knowledge from different disciplines meet.

UiO: Life Science is our biggest truly interdisciplinary undertaking. A new building for life science, pharmacy and chemistry will facilitate first-rate research, teaching and innovation in close cooperation with health trusts, local authorities and businesses. Life sciences have great business potential and will provide workplaces and the necessary adaptation to a greener economy.

UiO has ambitious goals for increasing its contribution to academic developments internationally, and address-ing societal challenges of our time.

Preface One of Europe’s most innovative

universities

Only Norwegian university on the Thomson Reuters list of Europe’s

100 most innovative universitiesRanked number 32

Rector Svein Stølen

University Director Gunn-Elin Aa. Bjørneboe

University Director Rector

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Of these students, around 14,500 are at the bachelor’s level, 6,400 are at the master’s level and 7,000 are in professional programmes

and integrated master’s programmes.

2,000 events – debates, seminars and conferences – arranged by UiO

are open and free to all.

28,000students

6,600 full-time equivalents

UiO was ranked as the world’s 62th best university, Europe’s 22th best university

and Norway’s best university in 2017.Shanghai Ranking of World Universities

World’s

62th best

university

Three-quarters of our staff are in research and teaching positions,

the rest are support or administrative personnel.

Fridtjof NansenPeace Prize, 1922

Odd HasselChemistry, 1969

Ragnar FrischEconomics, 1969

Ivar GiæverPhysics, 1973

Trygve HaavelmoEconomics, 1989

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Nobel Prize winners

2,000 events

Our breadth is our strength. New possibilities and solutions arise

when knowledge from different subject areas and disciplines meet.

UiO in brief

Study abroad award

1st place

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OsloUrban Living

Close to Nature

Oslo is Europe´s fastest growing capital and is recognized as progressive and creative. 2,1 million people live in the Oslo region, among these 104,000 students. Oslo is one of the regions in Europe with highest R&D expenditure pr. capita and the population is among the highest educated in the world. A good work-life balance is an integral part of the culture, and Oslo offers excellent kindergartens and schools, also international ones.

Oslo has a vibrant cultural scene, ethnic diversity, and a unique proximity to nature. Go skiing in winter, and swimming, sailing or hiking in the summer. Cultural activities and events rival those in larger European capitals, with close to 5,000 live concerts a year.

It’s easy to get to Oslo; there are direct flights from most places in the world and the airport express train takes you from the airport to the city center in 18 minutes.

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Education & student life

UiO’s candidates are attractive on the labour market. Eight out of ten

are employed three months after completing

their education.

810

61bachelor’s

programmes

105 master’s

programmes

UiO is the most attractive comprehensive research-based university in Norway and has experienced a steady increase in the number of applications in recent years.

Centres for Excellence in

Education

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5,261 candidates graduated

in 2016

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The University of Oslo currently offers 655 courses par-ticu larly aimed at exchange students and 34 Master’s degree programmes taught in English.

Exchange students normally study at UiO for one or two semesters and most exchange programmes have admission twice a year. You apply through your home university. Erasmus+ offers opportunities for student, staff, and PhD exchanges with partner universities throughout Europe. UiO has more than 400 exchange agreements with approximately 200 partner universi-ties in Europe.

In UiO’s applicant surveys, applicants respond that high academic quality of the education, personal interests and many opportunities for in-depth study are the most important reasons for choosing UiO.

Higher education at public institutions in Norway is free, and UiO does not charge tuition fees for studies. A full semester workload amounts to 30 ECTS credits. The academic year is divided into two semesters: autumn semester from August until December and spring semester from January until June.

See www.uio.no/english/studies for overview over study programmes and admissions information.

Student life: There is much more to UiO than studies and research. More than 300 student organizations contribute to a rich social life for students. At the begin-ning of each semester you are introduced to a Buddy – a student who has taken responsibility for intro ducing you to UiO and the city.

UiO has a special events programme for international students. You can choose from 60 different sports activities in four training centres and eat at more than 40 on-campus restaurants and cafes.

All international students are given priority for reason-ably priced student housing and will receive guidelines on how to book student housing after admission. How-ever, UiO does not control sources of student funding and cannot assist students financially. On this website you can read more about student life in Oslo and at UiO.www.uio.no/english/student-life/

655 courses

are taught in English

34 master’s

programmes in English

2511 exchange students

15% international

students

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Research

Key figures

29%

Funding from Research Council of Norway

34%

EU funding

43%

Centres of Excellence

50%

ERC grants

16%

Total appropriations from the Storting

28%

Publication points

34%

Doctoral degrees

Norwegian Centres of ExcellencePr. 1.9.18

UiO’s share of the overall

results from the public university and college

sector for selected indicators.

The share of appropriations

relates to UiO’s share of the Storting’s

(Parliament) total appropriations to the public higher

education sector.

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approx.

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As a broad research-based university, the Univer-sity of Oslo has a special responsibility to generate new ideas. New and radical solutions often originate in free basic research.

UiO coordinates almost half of the Centres of Excellence (SFF) in Norway. These centres are time-limited re-search centres characterized by focused, long-term research efforts of a high international calibre, and where researcher training is an important aspect. High scientific quality is the main criterion for the selection of the centres by the Research Council of Norway. UiO also accounts for around a third of the completed doctorates in Norway, as well as funding from the Re -

search Council of Norway and publication points. Fig-ures for 2016 show a significant increase in both the number of points and publications. The share of inter-national co-publications is increasing steadily and was close to 60 per cent in 2016.

Researchers at UiO cooperate with colleagues all over the world and connect with the best and most relevant institutions for their research. UiO recognizes the funda mental role of interdisciplinary research in addressing the major challenges facing society today. To encourage top level academic collaboration, three strategic initiatives have been established: UiO: Life Science, UiO: Energy and UiO: Nordic.

493doctoral degrees

8PhD

programmes

42% international

PhD candidates

UiO prioritises participation in the EU framework programme, and application activity from UiO to Horizon 2020 has been stable at a higher level than in the previous framework programme.

ERC grants as of 25 September 2018

50 Horizon 2020

projectsas of 13 April 2018

105Projects in the EU

framework programmeas of 1 October 2017

550

EU- funded projects

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Innovation

UiO has the largest number of business ideas and patent applications among the Norwegian universities Status Report for Research and Higher Education

UiO has the largerst number of co-authorships with the business sector (measured in the number of articles) among Norwegian universities Research Barometer

In addition, UiO participates in six such centres

1 center for Research- based Innovation (SFI)

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Oslo is growing fast, and fostering knowledge, inno-vation and creativity in its students is a first priority. Oslo is emerging as an international city and a tech-nology hub. There are tens of thousands of jobs re-lated to the development of techno logy, innovation and research.

The Research Park, which houses our innovation com-pany Inven2, as well as Oslo Tech, Startuplab and Norway Health Tech, is located next to Blindern Cam-pus. This is Oslo’s new central cluster with Norway’s foremost innovators. Our ambition is to create more commercial business from research and ideas from UiO.

UiO is the only Norwegian university on the Thompson Reuters 2018 list of the 100 most innovative universities in Europe. Most of the institutions on the list are tech-nical universities, so UiO’s ranking as number 32 shows that it is possible for an institution firmly anchored in basic research to assert itself in innovation. The uni-versity’s innovation company Inven2 has a leading position at the Nordic level.

Oslo Cancer Cluster, Norway Health Tech, Nansen Neuro-science Network, and the Life Science Cluster play an important role in the development of new business and are therefore key partners for UiO, especially in the life sciences and the health industry.

83NOK 70 million

for new research

698NOK 698 million in private capital

acquired

9 NOK 8 billion in total

value of portfolio companies

405 ongoing clinical

trials

160 new clinical

trials

84new patent

applications

Results from Inven2 in 2017Inven2 is UiO’s and Oslo University Hospital’s

innovation company

205 new ideas

6 new companies

established

35 new licence agreements

Prime Minister Erna Solberg visits The School of Health Innovation. The aim of the school is to provide healthcare and life science researchers with tools and insight into how innovation can be put to work for the benefit of patients and society. This is an initiative between the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and has been developed in cooperation with Nansen Neuroscience Network.

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A global university

Wien

Aarhus

OsloUppsala

Bologna

Bern

Tübingen

Ghent

Glasgow

Göttingen

Groningen

Krakow

LondonWarwick

Louvain

Ljubljana

Paris

Radboud

Tartu

The Guild

The Guild was established in 2016, and is a transformative network of 19 European research-intensive universities. The Guild engages with policy-makers, enhances public debate, promotes excellence in higher education, and collaborates with private and public institutions to solve global problems.

Members of the Guild

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UiO has established an academic voluntary effort for refugees and asylum seekers. The aim is to help refu-gees with an academic background into relevant study programmes and employment in Norway. UiO has also expanded the Scholars at Risk scheme to help researcher in countries where academic free-dom is threatened.

UiO has established an academic voluntary effort for refugees and asylum seekers. The aim is to help refu-gees with an academic background into relevant study programmes and employment in Norway through networking, internships, information and language initiatives. A new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for ref-ugees and other migrants to Norway, “Introduction to Norwegian”, has been developed by the Depart-ment of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies. It received the university’s Education Award in 2017.

UiO has also expanded the Scholars at Risk scheme to help more researchers in countries where aca-demic freedom is threatened.

Every summer we welcome over 550 students

from up to 90 countries to our International

Summer School.

In total, UiO’s researchers have contributed to 11,690

joint publications with 3443 different international

partner institutions.

Many of the 21st century’s global challenges associ-at ed with areas such as climate, energy, health, pover- ty and violation of human rights observe neither disciplinary boundaries nor geographic borders. UiO aims to make significant contributions to the know-ledge base that is needed in order to address the major global challenges of today.

UiO has a strategic focus on further strengthening its excellent partnerships, networks and cooperative activities with institutions in partner countries and regions as well as on further developing its strong EU portfolio. These countries and regions are:

Brazil China Europe The Global South India Japan The Nordic countries South Africa Russia USA The Arctic

A globally engaged university

Academic dugnad

550

11,690

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University Management

Strategic Networks

UiO and the Norwegian Excellence Scheme

RectorSvein Stølen

Pro-RectorGro Bjørnerud Mo

Vice-Rector Åse Gornitzka

Vice-RectorPer Morten Sandset

University DirectorGunn-Elin Aa. Bjørneboe

Deputy University DirectorTove Kristin Karlsen

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The University of Oslo aims to enhance the quality of research, education and innovation through long-term strategic partnerships with world-leading universities and active partici-pation in international university networks:

The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities

UNICA – Networks of Universities from the Capitals of Europe

The European University Association (EUA)

NUAS – The Nordic Association of University Administrators

• Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences

• CanCell – Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming

• RoCS – Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics

• RITMO – Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion

• HTH – Hybrid Technology Hub

• MultiLing – Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan

• NORMENT

• PLURICOURTS

• Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics

Norwegian Centres of Excellence (SFF)

• ProTed – Centre for Professional Learning in Teacher Education (in partnership with UiT)

• Center for Computing in Science Education

Centres for Excellence in Education Initiative (SFU)

• Centre for Scalable Data Access (SIRIUS)

Centres for Research-based Innovation (SFI)

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